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C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies
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Phone: +1-212-434-9641
E-mail: eeconomy@cfr.org
Location:
New York, NY
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Award-winning author of The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenges to China’s Future. Currently writing a book on how the rise of China is reshaping the landscape of East Asia.
Expertise:Chinese domestic and foreign policy; U.S.-China relations; global environmental issues.
Experience:Member, Board of Councilors, China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development; member, Executive Committee, George Washington University, Program on International Studies in Asia; member, Advisory Board, Issues & Studies; member, Advisory Board “Navigating Peace: Forging New Water Partnerships,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Environmental Change and Security Project; member, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations; member, Research Council, Institute for International Research at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies (2000-2002); member, Selection Committee for the Woodrow Wilson Center’s International Scholars Program (1999-2000); Cochair, Woodrow Wilson Center Working Group on China and the Environment (1997-99); member, Selection Committee of MacArthur Foundation Research Writing Competition (1996-98); periodically consults for agencies of the U.S. government; professorial lecturer, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University (1997); Research Fellow, Columbia University (1994); Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese Foreign Policy, University of Washington (1993-94).
Languages:Chinese and Russian (familiar).
Honors:University of Michigan Outstanding Teaching Award (1990); SSRC-MacArthur Dissertation Fellowship in International Peace and Security Studies (1990-93); profiled in the National Journal’s special report on people whose ideas will help shape key policy issues after the 2004 presidential elections (May 2004); The River Runs Black named one of the top 10 books of 2004 by the Globalist; The River Runs Black named best social sciences book published on Asia in 2003 or 2004 by the International Convention on Asia Scholars.
Selected Publications:Inside China (contributing author, National Geographic, 2007); The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future (Cornell University Press, 2004); China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects (coeditor, Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1999); The Internationalization of Environmental Protection (coeditor, Cambridge University Press, 1997); "China's Real Environmental Challenge," (Caijing Magazine Annual Edition, 2008); Scorched Earth: Will Environmental Risks in China Overwhelm Its Opportunities? (Harvard Business Review, 2007); China vs. Earth (The Nation, 2007); China’s Environmental Challenge: Political, Social, and Economic Implications,” Congressional-Executive Commission on China Roundtable on the Environment (2003); “Interview with Elizabeth Economy: China’s Development and the Environment,” Harvard Asia Quarterly (Winter 2003); Beginning the Journey: China, the United States, and the WTO, Report of an Independent Task Force (codirector, Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2001); "The Great Leap Backward?" Foreign Affairs (September/October 2007); Don’t Break the Engagement Foreign Affairs; Painting China Green Foreign Affairs (March/April 1999); “Reforming China,” Survival (Autumn 1999); and op-eds and book reviews published in New York Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, New York Newsday, and South China Morning Post.
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Council Fellow Elizabeth Economy’s The River Runs Black Named Best Social Sciences Book on Asia
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December 3, 2007
| Speakers: | Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Mark Tercek, Managing Director, Center for Environmental Markets, Goldman Sachs; Adjunct Professor, Stern School of Business, New York University Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, Correspondent, Economist |
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| Presider: | Michael Moran, Executive Editor, CFR.org |
Video
The confluence of energy and environmental policy issues and Campaign 2008 is explored in this second of a series of public meetings sponsored by CFR.org, the Economist, and NYU's Stern School of Business.
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October 15, 2007
Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor, CFR.org
Interview
CFR’s Elizabeth C. Economy says there are increasing calls for more democracy in China and the Communist Party Congress will have to deal with who will become the so-called “fifth generation” of Chinese leaders.
See more in China, Democracy Promotion
September 27, 2007
Podcast
If China ever agrees to binding greenhouse gas emissions caps, CFR’s Elizabeth Economy says the nation will need a “wholesale mindset change” to reach those goals.
See more in China, Climate Change
September 27, 2007
| Speaker: | Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director of Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations |
Audio
Listen to Elizabeth C. Economy, CFR's C.V. Starr senior fellow and director of Asia studies, discuss the impact of China's economic growth on the environment with students as part of the CFR Academic Conference Call Series.
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September 6, 2007
| Speaker: | Elizabeth C. Economy, CV Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies at the Council of Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | Gideon Rose, Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs |
Transcript
A conference call with Elizabeth Economy, CFR senior fellow, in which she discusses her recent Foreign Affairs article on China’s economy.
See more in China, Energy/Environment
August 24, 2007
| Author: | Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies |
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Op-Ed
International Herald Tribune
See more in China, Economic Development, Energy/Environment
September/October 2007
| Author: | Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies |
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Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
China's environmental woes are mounting, and the country is fast becoming one of the leading polluters in the world. The situation continues to deteriorate because even when Beijing sets ambitious targets to protect the environment, local officials generally ignore them, preferring to concentrate on further advancing economic growth. Really improving the environment in China will require revolutionary bottom-up political and economic reforms.
See more in China, Energy/Environment
June 2007
| Authors: | Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies Kenneth Lieberthal |
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Article
Harvard Business Review
See more in China, International Finance, Environmental Pollution
May 7, 2007
| Author: | Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies |
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Article
The Nation
See more in China, Energy/Environment
January 25, 2007
| Author: | Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies |
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Op-Ed
The Washington Post
See more in China, Arms Control and Disarmament, Missile Defense, Grand Strategy
December 3, 2006
| Author: | Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies |
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Op-Ed
The Washington Post
See more in China, Energy/Environment
November 15, 2006
Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Elizabeth C. Economy, CFR’s director of Asian studies, says that President Bush’s legacy in Asia “will not be a terribly positive one.”
See more in United States, Asia, Economics, Energy/Environment
November 2, 2006
| Author: | Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies |
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Op-Ed
International Herald Tribune
See more in Africa, China, Energy/Environment
April 20, 2006
| Authors: | Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies Michael A. Levi, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and Environment |
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Op-Ed
International Herald Tribune
See more in China, Technology and Foreign Policy, Information & Communication
April 17, 2006
| Authors: | Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies Adam Segal, Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies |
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Op-Ed
The Washington Post
See more in China, Economic Development
April 14, 2006
Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Elizabeth Economy, the Council's senior fellow for Asia, says that when President Hu Jintao of China meets President Bush at the White House next Thursday, the administration would like to see some progress on "sticky security issues" like North Korea and Iran. But she does not expect to see much help from China on these questions.
See more in China
November 27, 2005
| Author: | Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies |
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Op-Ed
Time Asia
See more in China, Environmental Pollution
November 20, 2005
| Author: | Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies |
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Op-Ed
Newsday
See more in China, Trade, Peacemaking
November 15, 2005
| Author: | Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies |
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Op-Ed
International Herald Tribune
See more in China, Climate Change
November 11, 2005
Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
See more in Asia, China, U.S. Strategy and Politics
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